View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Bitter Grounds, and Other People.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What explanation does the detective give for the word 'Rache' being written on the wall at the crime scene?
(a) Rache means 'revenge' in German.
(b) Rache is the name of a particularly powerful Old One.
(c) Rache is the name of a resistance group who fight the Old Ones.
(d) The victim was trying to write the name of his killer - Rachel.

2. What do the two of them do?
(a) Explore and climb a tree.
(b) Play hide and seek in the farmhouse.
(c) Play in the river.
(d) Tell ghost stories.

3. What is the name of the club in the story 'Closing Time'?
(a) The Diogenes.
(b) The Sophocles.
(c) The White Hart.
(d) The Lion.

4. What is the third play in the trio that the detective takes the narrator to?
(a) A play celebrating the victory of the Old Ones over mankind.
(b) A play about a vampire.
(c) A play about the murder of an Old One.
(d) A play condemning the Old Ones as tyrants.

5. To whom are the detective and the narrator taken to see after they have looked at the crime scene?
(a) The resistance.
(b) Queen Victoria.
(c) The police.
(d) The German ambassador.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does the narrator meet at a motel, and offer to give a ride to?

2. At a cafe, how does the narrator identify himself?

3. What does the woman from the bar say happened to a young man in New Orleans?

4. What does Amelia promise them in return for not killing her?

5. What does June say before October's story begins?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 376 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample